Blog of Josh Hall

This was part of a challenge this year to make something homemade for 5 people.  Adam’s always been a big Who fan.  Probably took 3 hours to design, build, and then glue.  

I once set out to create a model of Pittsburgh out of bricks.  It didn’t turn out well.  Scale is a hard thing to maintain when constricted to the shapes of LEGO bricks.  So, the mini-series was born.  As I’m inspired, or as requested, I’ll set out to recreate individual buildings and landmarks.  Here’s what [...]

You knew someone was going to do it eventually.  Back in 2009, British Television host, James May, and a group of volunteers set out to create the house in the UK.  Sure, they made sure it had a solid wood frame structure, but everything else is all LEGO.  There was something about James actually living [...]

This is actually my second foray into the LEGO mosaic realm. The first one was a freehand design of the LEGO logo. A mosaic of Albert Einstein would require a little assistance though. There are 2 methods for creating mosaics in LEGO bricks, this one is a studs out technique, where the studs face the [...]

Nathan Sawaya, known as the brick artist, is my favorite LEGO artist around.  He mixes brick with modern art sculpture.  His latest project is Hugman, where he leaves a LEGO man hugging random urban objects.  Kind of a viral marketing technique, kind of a Banksy method, but still entertaining and unique in it’s own way.  [...]

So this is a MOC (My Own Creation) that I did a year or so ago in a similar design, but never documented it. I’m a lot happier with the lower profile of this incarnation over the boxier first version I did. My initial intent was just to test my abilities with gears and the [...]